Safety for bolt action rifles

ABSTRACT

A safety for bolt action rifles is provided having a lateral safety lever, said safety lever comprising a safety catch as additional safety.

[0001] The present invention discloses a safety for bolt action rifles having a lateral safety lever.

[0002] Bolt action rifles are equipped with safeties. For example the Original-Mauser-K98-bolt action rifles are equipped with the Original-Mauser-Safety. Said safety has an immediate effect on the cocking piece and therefore locks the firing pin when in safe position. Thus the trigger cannot be released.

[0003] In safe position the safety lever is situated on the right side of the safety sleeve and can be moved to the middle position and then to the left side into fire position. When in the middle position the bolt can be opened for clearing but the trigger cannot be released. However, in this construction it is considered disadvantageous that the safety lever, which is moved over the rifle, may collide with a low mounted scope.

[0004] Therefore in prior art a safety lever was developed which is fitted on the right side of the sleeve and which can be moved from the rear position, position SAFE, across the middle position to the front position, position FIRE.

[0005] This allowed a very low scope mounting, however, it is disadvantageous that it is possible to move the safety lever unintentionally from the safe position to the front position and thus making the firearm unnoticed ready for firing.

[0006] It is the object of the present invention to provide a safety for bolt action rifles which overcomes the aforementioned disadvantage.

[0007] The object is solved by a safety for bolt action rifles having a lateral safety lever which is characterized in that said safety lever comprises a safety catch.

[0008] The safety lever is situated on the right side of the safety sleeve and can be moved from the rear to the front position and vice versa.

[0009] In order to hold the plunger pin in position, the safety lever may have two notches for insert of the plunger pin, which is pressed against the safety lever by a pressure spring.

[0010] The solution according to the present invention has the great advantage that the safety lever cannot be moved unintentionally from the safe position to the front position, thus making the firearm unnoticed ready for firing. This additional safety is integrated into the safety lever as a safety catch.

[0011] In a preferred embodiment the safety catch comprises a lug which locks into a groove in the sleeve of the safety. Further, the safety catch may be placed rotatably around a spring dowel pin, wherein the safety catch comprises a pressure spring.

[0012] Locking the lug of the safety catch results in the following three positions of the safety lever. Front position: position FIRE; middle position: position COCKING PIECE LOCKED, BOLT RELEASED; rear position: position SAFE. The positions FIRE and COCKING PIECE LOCKED, BOLT RELEASED result from the locking of the plunger pin in the notches in the safety lever, the position SAFE results from the locking of the lug of the safety catch in the groove of the safety sleeve.

[0013] The spring load presses the lug of the safety catch into the provided opening, here called groove. By pushing the furrowed part of the safety catch downwards, the lug is lifted out of the groove and the safety catch may be moved forward into the position FIRE. The position SAFE can only be left by activating the spring load in the safety catch so that an unintentional movement of the safety lever into position FIRE is avoided. In order to move the safety lever back to position SAFE, the safety lever must just be turned backwards.

[0014] Therefore the present invention prevents an unintentional movement of the safety lever into position FIRE in a particularly effective and simultaneously simple way.

[0015] The invention is further illustrated by means of the following drawings.

[0016]FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are plan views of the safety each.

[0017]FIG. 1 shows the position FIRE,

[0018]FIG. 2 shows the position COCKING PIECE LOCKED, BOLT RELEASED and

[0019]FIG. 3 shows the position SAFE.

[0020]FIG. 4 shows the safety in a rear view.

[0021]FIG. 5 shows a side view of the safety lever with the safety catch in the position LOCKED.

[0022]FIG. 6 shows a side view of the safety lever with the safety catch in the position RELEASED.

[0023] On the sleeve 1 of the safety a shroud 11 is fixed. The plunger pin 10 is pressed into one of the two notches 13 of the safety lever 2 by the pressure spring 4.

[0024] The stud screw 9 engages into the guiding groove 8 of the safety lever 2, which is further guided in the sleeve 1 by the pilot pin 7.

[0025] Depending on the position of the safety (ever 2, the safety shaft 6 locks or releases the bolt.

[0026] Into safety lever 2 safety catch 3 is integrated, which is arranged rotatably around spring dowel pin 5. Pressure spring 12 for safety catch 3 presses the lug 14 of the safety catch 3 into the provided groove 15 of the sleeve 1. LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS 1 sleeve 2 safety lever 3 safety catch 4 pressure spring for plunger pin 5 spring dowel pin 6 safety shaft 7 pilot pin 8 guiding groove 9 stud screw 10 plunger pin 11 shroud 12 pressure spring for safety catch 13 notch for insert of plunger pin 14 lug of the safety catch 15 groove 

1. Safety for bolt action rifles having a lateral safety lever, characterized in that said safety lever comprises a safety catch.
 2. Safety as in claim 1, characterized in that said safety catch comprises a lug that locks into the groove.
 3. Safety as in claim 2, characterized in that said safety catch is rotatable around a spring dowel pin.
 4. Safety as in claim 3, characterized in that said safety catch comprises a pressure spring. 